If I recall my youth correctly, we’d take the Animal Crackers boxes and join them together, creating a train out of them because that’s what they were supposed to represent — a circus train.
Those days are gone now in so many ways.
There are no more cages on Animal Crackers. It’s back to the wild. Run free, little critters!
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Not to worry, Nabisco says, they still have “the same great taste.”
The change comes a couple of years after People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals — PETA — asked the company to send a different message in its packaging.
“When PETA reached out about Barnum’s, we saw this as another great opportunity to continue to keep this brand modern and contemporary,” a spokesman for Nabisco’s parent company said.